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Wednesday, 8 March 2017

An item referred to the magazine R.S.U.I. dated August 1939 reporting that 500 crewmembers of the cruisers Achilles (1) and Leander (2) and the depot ship Philomela (3) of the New Zealand Navy protested on 19 June at Devonport, Auckland against heir low wages. They made clear not to refuse service. The prime minister stated a day alter that problem was quite known for a longer period but that the cabinet had to approve a wage hike. Married men did indeed get such a hike and children surcharge.

Notes
1. Laid down by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, United Kingdom on 11 June 1931, launched on 1 September 1932 and served in the Royal New Zealand Navy between 1941-1946 when she was sold to India where she became the HIMS Delhi. Of the Leander-class.
2. Laid down at navy dockyard at Devonport on 8 September 1930, launched om 24 September 1931 and serving in the Royal New Zealand Navy 1914-1945. Of the Leander-class.
3. Pearl-class cruiser, launched at the navy yard at Plymouth on 28 August 1890 for the British Royal Navy, loaned to New Zealand in 1914, worn out became she a depot ship for minesweepers in 1917, training ship since 1921 and finally was her hulk scuttled in 1949.

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My father (Ron) and I (Alexander) are doing research in the topic navies and trading companies in the period 1500-present. My mother Karin helped my father early 1980's with research and nowadays she is almost daily photographing the ships passing on the river Schelde.
My father started his research more as 40 years ago. First he was interested in the Dutch navy and the navies in the Second World War , later in the period 19th century-present and about 20 years he started his research in the topic navies 1500-1860, in fact the era of the sailing warships including the galleys and the trading companies like the Dutch E.I.C. and the W.I.C.
My self, I’m interested in the topic navies 1860-present especially Russian built warships and Dutch warships and further more sailing ships over the whole period.
Together we are busy with photographing, drawing and doing research in archives, literature and on the web trying to collect every kind of information and sharing that with others without commercial thoughts just because we are ship lovers and fond of naval history.